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Noise, doesn't like to sort of be in the limelight, and yet you have found yourself as a result of what... by accident! so, i'm just wondering now whether you feel you will continue to be prominent with this message of yours, to use your voice, or do you partly wish to go back to the quiet life you had before? well, i spoke to someone else on another news service this morning, and it's a lady who also works on cricket. and she's asked me a similar question, and i told her i am dying for the 4th of august, when i can go back into the commentary box and just do cricket... go back to doing cricke...

But i want to talk about your sport, cricket, and your experience. sure. do you think it has progressed? fundamentally changed from the way it was and the way racism worked in cricket in the �*70s and �*80s? well, i don't know... i don't know if you could say progressed, because i don't think cricket basically has changed a lot. i'm a little bit worried about the image that cricket has here in england, not necessarily around the world. i think perhaps cricket is a little bit peculiar because people look upon cricket, and people keep on telling me this, "don't expect too much from cricket."...

Had a very dark skin. yes. and they, in their own way, were very racist about that. and you've written very frankly about the difficulties that has presented to you, making sense of that. yeah. and what came home to me much later in life again, stephen, was remembering, as a kid, my mother waking me up in new york, upstairs, looking down into the neighbour's back yard and seeing how white and black kids were playing together, and calling me, "mikey, mikey, come and have a look here." and saying to me, "we have a chance." that was in her brain throughout. i am a kid, i wouldn't even have known ...

So, why can't cricket as a sport and as an organisation, the people that run cricket, take it upon themselves and say, "this is something that we believe in. we believe black lives matter." forget the political side and political organisation. "we believe in three words — black lives matter." everyone takes a knee in respect of that. that's a gesture that is known and respected throughout the world to support black lives matter. and then they can't do it...? yeah, well, that's fascinating, cos the english cricket team decided to stop taking the knee, i think, in september 2020. you... and th...

Something else if i didn't play cricket, but it definitely made me what i am. "..is letting me down personally." and i take it very personal. because when the england team can say, officially, stephen, notjust by rumour, officially put out a press release that they only took the knee in respect of their visitors, what that tells me, if their visitors was a white team, they would not have done it. so, why can't cricket as a sport and as an organisation, the people that run cricket, take it upon themselves and say, "this is something that we believe in. we believe black lives matter." forget the...